• Apologies for not posting are for Megatokyo fans.
• I’m going to join the swelling chorus in praise of The Suburbs. While I didn’t believe in the singles being strong enough to carry the album like in Funeral or Neon Bible, I stand entirely corrected. The Suburbs, Ready To Start, Modern Man, Empty Room, City With No Children, Month of May, and Sprawl II are ALL worthy heirs.
• What I find particularly interesting is that, as opposed to LCD Soundsystem or Sleigh Bells, tepid initial reaction is giving way to gushing praise the longer the album is around. 2010 was a weird year for buzz, and I’m glad AF managed to transcend it.
• I got a copy of both the Native releases, Wrestling Moves and We Delete, Erase. While I didn’t realize how, uhm, embarrassing (?) the lyrics are, the musicality of this band is unbelievable. DIY punk at its finest, which is now officially its own genre.
• MGMT is dead to me. I don’t understand how a band that is actively trying to reduce its fanbase is so fucking popular.
• I’m not afraid to admit I’ve been listening to Dookie again. It’s like a breath of fresh air to remind myself what a bunch of excellently bratty asshats Green Day used to be, as opposed to the faux-populist bullshit they’ve been churning out since they realized American Idiot was a cash cow.
• Strokes fever is still here. Is This It? finally gave way to Room On Fire on the car CD changer. It has been over a month. I think we’re moving from Strokes fever to Strokes plague.
• Klaxons are impressing me with their new album. A few more plays and I’ll have something intelligible to write other than “ooh this sounds like bleepy fun”
• Oh, but on the bleepy fun note, I HIGHLY HIGHLY HIGHLY endorse Anamanaguchi’s Scott Pilgrim Video Game soundtrack. It is perfect car driving, they do an amazing bit of work with the chiptune genre, and wow do I want to play that game as a result.
• Albatross had 21 plays of Think Happy Thoughts in the last week on Last.fm. That’s… Unprecedented? Are they actually getting popular??? Gasp.
